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Very sad and overdue update

Friends of Portable Scores, It’s been a long time since the last newsletter, and for that I apologize. Sadly, things are not going well for Portable Scores, and dreading this newsletter has been the reason for its delay. I’m officially more »

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April Update

Hello friends, In our last issue we were super excited about our Kickstarter launch. It didn’t go as well as we would have liked. That’s a bit of an understatement, but we’re moving on. The important part is that we more »

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Monthly Update – March 2013

We’re going big! We’re casting off the shackles of slowness, emerging early from our winter cocoon, and springing forward like our clocks did on Sunday. That’s not to say that we haven’t been working hard all along; we’ve had big more »

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A year in review – 2012

Portable Scores was founded one year ago, and in that year quite a bit has happened. Here are some of the highlights of the last year: February 9, 2012, Incorporated. What started as a hobby project became an official business, and more »

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Sponsoring 2013 TEDx Madison

Portable Scores is proud to sponsor TEDx Madison in 2013 by providing the timing systems for the event. Our scoreboard has been used by a lot of people to time speakers, and we’re proud to be showing off ours at more »

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Rendering of the final product

We’ve been working on the design of the scoreboard a lot, and we’re finally happy with what we have. Here’s a video of the rendering we really like. There are a lot of features to point out. Clear polycarbonate face more »

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Returning from China

Portable Scores is back in the United States for now. There were some things that needed to be done in the States that couldn’t be done easily in China. Ironically, this included producing a quantity of prototypes. The Sector67 hackerspace more »

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Portable Scores at the Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire

Portable Scores had a booth at the Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire, where we showed off the scoreboard and got feedback from the makers at the event. The reaction was not what we expected. First, there was a problem with communication more »

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Life’s a game; we wanna help you score well

On TechCrunch recently was a series of articles on the gamification of life, and how sensors and metrics and analytics are becoming more important in our lives,  and how tools are being developed that help people measure  and qauntify everything, more »

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We are in China!

Portable Scores has moved its operations to China temporarily to work on manufacturing the scoreboard and making it even more awesome. There were some things slowing us down in the states, and here in China there are fewer distractions keeping more »

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Why?
We built this for all the people and teams who play sports but don't have a big professional scoreboards. It's for tournaments, league sports, gyms, schools, and anyone who wants to get more involved and have more fun with their sports.
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